Shannon McGrath has been photographing architecture and interior design works for 15 years. She is commissioned by pre-eminent architects and designers around Australia for her ability to get under the skin of a project, and not only capture its pure essence but also her client’s formal design intent. Passionate and professional, Shannon’s images are known for their beautiful portrayal of light and form, with a soft realism that celebrates the subject matter.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
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When I took my son to see the house in the midst of its completion, through his eyes, it unfolded as an endless structure, ‘a house that never ended’ – in his young mind, it appeared as a house stretching far beyond its actual boundaries.
The Toorak House is a study of scale and materiality, enriched by the presence of shadows. Solid glass bricks create a translucent veil upon which to glimpse this tranquil passing of the day and imbue a surreal luster and humility to the surrounds.
A spacious and peaceful family home surrounded by its lush long garden. Like many of our clients, the owners of Long Garden House engaged Bower when they purchased a suburban block to gain space for their growing family.
This renovation to a 100 year old Victorian cottage is located in the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Australia. The context is unique in its proximity to an historic brickworks factory that contains striking brick chimneys that form a backdrop to this urban site.
Bellbird House actively preserves this important area of natural habitat within suburbia. It is a house of activity and togetherness, a home where a family can connect with the natural environment and each other.
The Coastal Court House achieves a seven-star energy rating and the design performs well passively in terms of light, temperature control, and natural ventilation.
The Brighton White House achieves an energy rating of over 7 stars and features efficient thermal mass internally effective sun shading and a delightfully simple arrangement of natural ventilation.
This brick and glass extension fits snugly onto the back of a double fronted weatherboard worker’s cottage in Clifton Hill. Designed to capture light from the north, as well as views of an existing bottle brush tree to the south
Hatherlie House is a late 19th century terrace house of individual heritage significance, located in the inner city suburb of North Fitzroy.
Project: Malvern House Architects: Eliza Blair Architecture Interior Design: EBA in collaboration with Louisa Prentice of LP Interiors Builder: Kleev Homes Styling: Louisa Prentice Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Photography: Shannon McGrath Text by Eliza Blair Architecture When the clients of Malvern House said they wanted to create a statement stair in the addition to their
Previoulsy a general store, this South Melbourne terrace has been transformed into the forever home for a Melbourne couple and their two young daughters.
Wellington St Mixed Use House falls outside of traditional classifications. Located within a mixed use zone and deliberately ambiguous in its typology it presents as a hybrid model perhaps more readily found in somewhere like Japan where uses and zones are commonly mixed and stratified.
